What had endured for perhaps a thousand years or more as a raised earthwork, most likely the enclosed farmstead of an early medieval family, was gone within a single agricultural season. A rath, as these earthen ringforts are commonly called, typically consisted of a circular bank and ditch enclosing a living space, and this one near Cloghroe was no minor example.

Ordnance Survey maps from 1842 and again from 1903 clearly depicted the enclosure as a circular earthwork roughly 35 metres across. By the time the survey was revised in 1934 to 1935, partial levelling was already under way, and P. J. Hartnett, writing in 1939, confirmed that the site had been entirely cleared two years earlier, with corn growing where the banks had stood. He noted that the fort appeared to have had a double rampart, that is, two concentric earthen banks rather than one, and an overall diameter of approximately 120 feet. A double rampart was not unusual among the more substantial raths, and may have indicated a site of some local importance. The field has since returned to pasture, leaving no surface trace of what the maps once recorded.